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[SalmonGod]

Also, this made me smile for some reason:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Good for a chuckle

[RedKing]

Autumn and Winter are bitches, but they do bring some nice things.

You come north of the Mason-Dixon and say that.

Absolutely this.

Okay, *here* they're bitches.
In the ice-ravaged wastes you live in, they're screaming hell-banshees.

[SalmonGod]

Autumn and Winter are bitches, but they do bring some nice things.

You come north of the Mason-Dixon and say that.

Absolutely this.

Okay, *here* they're bitches.
In the ice-ravaged wastes you live in, they're screaming hell-banshees.

I will bed that screaming hell-banshee for life, if it means I never again have to be thrown in that house made of flaming sandpaper full of eye-stabbing psychopaths flipping out on bath salts and pcp otherwise known as summer.

[Lagslayer]

Autumn and Winter are bitches, but they do bring some nice things.

You come north of the Mason-Dixon and say that.

Absolutely this.

Okay, *here* they're bitches.
In the ice-ravaged wastes you live in, they're screaming hell-banshees.

I will bed that screaming hell-banshee for life, if it means I never again have to be thrown in that house made of flaming sandpaper full of eye-stabbing psychopaths flipping out on bath salts and pcp otherwise known as summer.

Mid-latitude has the worst of both worlds. Trust me, I live in this swamp-ridden, chokingly humid hell hole. The air comes off the land, so we don't get the cool ocean breeze, but there is water everywhere, so the humidity never goes away. Summer is hot and muggy, winter is cold and wet, but the snow always sucks. It could be argued that we don't get a lot of the most severe weather here, but it tends to be really shit in the summer and winter. Fall and somewhat less spring are nice, though.

[kaijyuu]

The weather's pretty nice here. Never more than a frost or light snow, and in summer it's rarely above 90 or so.

Near 100% humidity sometimes, but I like humidity.

[SalmonGod]

Autumn and Winter are bitches, but they do bring some nice things.

You come north of the Mason-Dixon and say that.

Absolutely this.

Okay, *here* they're bitches.
In the ice-ravaged wastes you live in, they're screaming hell-banshees.

I will bed that screaming hell-banshee for life, if it means I never again have to be thrown in that house made of flaming sandpaper full of eye-stabbing psychopaths flipping out on bath salts and pcp otherwise known as summer.

Mid-latitude has the worst of both worlds. Trust me, I live in this swamp-ridden, chokingly humid hell hole. The air comes off the land, so we don't get the cool ocean breeze, but there is water everywhere, so the humidity never goes away. Summer is hot and muggy, winter is cold and wet, but the snow always sucks. It could be argued that we don't get a lot of the most severe weather here, but it tends to be really shit in the summer and winter. Fall and somewhat less spring are nice, though.

Indiana is the same.  Summers spend a lot of time in the high 90s (occasionally reaching into the low 100s) with fairly high humidity, and winters can get to -20F with ice storms and pretty decent snow.  The worst is our so-called spring and fall, where instead of mild weather, it spasms back and forth between winter and summer, breaking fucking everything with a month or two of constantly repeating freeze/thaw.  Early to mid-spring here is referred to as hyper-fix.

[alway]

So I came across this blog the other day, which generally reviews the usability and such of interfaces in SF material. And got to the bit about the crazy finger-augmentation keyboards from Ghost in the Shell. (you know, this one)
Here's the analysis of it: http://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/the-secret-of-the-tera-keyboard/

The board has around 100 keys in total.

What’s nifty about the keyboard itself is not the number of keys. Modern keyboards have about that many. What’s nifty is that you can see these keyboards are massively chorded, with screen captures from the film showing nine keys being pressed at once.

*snip*
But on the tera-keyboard you’re able to press nine keys at once, and more importantly, it looks like any key can be chorded with any other key. If we’re conservative in the interpretation and presume that 9 keys must be pressed at once—leaving 6 fingerlets free to move into position for the next bit of input—that still adds up to a possible 2,747,472,247,520 possible keypresses (≈2.7 trillion). That’s about nine orders of magnitude more than our measley 1600. At 24 keypresses per second, that’s a data rate of 6.5939334e+13 per second.

*snip*
The only thing that nears this level of data on a human scale is the human brain. With a common estimate of 100 billion neurons, the keyboard could be expressing the state of it’s users brain, 24 times a second, distinguishing between 10 different states of each neuron.

*snip*
Because of the form factor of hands and keyboard, it looks like a manual input device. But looking at the data throughput, the evidence suggests that it’s actually a brain interface, meant to keep the computer up to date with whatever the user is thinking at that exact moment and responding appropriately. For all the futurism seen in this film, this is perhaps the most futuristic, and perhaps the most surprising.

My mind = blown.

[RedKing]

The weather's pretty nice here. Never more than a frost or light snow, and in summer it's rarely above 90 or so.

Near 100% humidity sometimes, but I like humidity.

Are you on the coast? Gets a good bit over 90 in the upcountry.

[kaijyuu]

Naw, I'm not on the coast, but I was told this summer was unusually cool. Maybe it normally gets hotter.

[SalmonGod]

So I came across this blog the other day, which generally reviews the usability and such of interfaces in SF material. And got to the bit about the crazy finger-augmentation keyboards from Ghost in the Shell. (you know, this one)
Here's the analysis of it: http://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/the-secret-of-the-tera-keyboard/

The board has around 100 keys in total.

What’s nifty about the keyboard itself is not the number of keys. Modern keyboards have about that many. What’s nifty is that you can see these keyboards are massively chorded, with screen captures from the film showing nine keys being pressed at once.

*snip*
But on the tera-keyboard you’re able to press nine keys at once, and more importantly, it looks like any key can be chorded with any other key. If we’re conservative in the interpretation and presume that 9 keys must be pressed at once—leaving 6 fingerlets free to move into position for the next bit of input—that still adds up to a possible 2,747,472,247,520 possible keypresses (≈2.7 trillion). That’s about nine orders of magnitude more than our measley 1600. At 24 keypresses per second, that’s a data rate of 6.5939334e+13 per second.

*snip*
The only thing that nears this level of data on a human scale is the human brain. With a common estimate of 100 billion neurons, the keyboard could be expressing the state of it’s users brain, 24 times a second, distinguishing between 10 different states of each neuron.

*snip*
Because of the form factor of hands and keyboard, it looks like a manual input device. But looking at the data throughput, the evidence suggests that it’s actually a brain interface, meant to keep the computer up to date with whatever the user is thinking at that exact moment and responding appropriately. For all the futurism seen in this film, this is perhaps the most futuristic, and perhaps the most surprising.

My mind = blown.

Hehe... reminds me of my favorite tabletop rp character that I played under the Amber Diceless system. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He had computer sunglasses that he interacted with through implants in his fingertips, among a bunch of other gadgets.  He typed by tapping his fingers on any hard surface, and he had plates in the pockets of his fancy trenchcoat for doing so.  I described him as always with his hands in his pockets, rapidly tapping away, but we spent most of the game in lower technology settings, so nobody ever had any idea what he was doing.  The main focus of his character was his relationship with an AI companion that lived in his sunglasses.  He thought it was his sister that he had resurrected into the cyber realm with a combination of trump magic and techno-wizardry.  The game didn't last long enough to arrive at any of the major plot revelations the GM had planned, but years later he told me that my character was supposed to learn that the AI companion was completely bogus.  It was actually a sort of multiple personality, and the character was himself responsible for everything she did.  He was just so godly talented that he could ask her to perform complex tasks, like filter through shitloads of data or hack into high security systems, and then do those things himself without realizing it while focusing on other things.  He was always tapping his fingers.

[alway]

So I came across this blog the other day, which generally reviews the usability and such of interfaces in SF material. And got to the bit about the crazy finger-augmentation keyboards from Ghost in the Shell. (you know, this one)
Here's the analysis of it: http://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/the-secret-of-the-tera-keyboard/

The board has around 100 keys in total.

What’s nifty about the keyboard itself is not the number of keys. Modern keyboards have about that many. What’s nifty is that you can see these keyboards are massively chorded, with screen captures from the film showing nine keys being pressed at once.

*snip*
But on the tera-keyboard you’re able to press nine keys at once, and more importantly, it looks like any key can be chorded with any other key. If we’re conservative in the interpretation and presume that 9 keys must be pressed at once—leaving 6 fingerlets free to move into position for the next bit of input—that still adds up to a possible 2,747,472,247,520 possible keypresses (≈2.7 trillion). That’s about nine orders of magnitude more than our measley 1600. At 24 keypresses per second, that’s a data rate of 6.5939334e+13 per second.

*snip*
The only thing that nears this level of data on a human scale is the human brain. With a common estimate of 100 billion neurons, the keyboard could be expressing the state of it’s users brain, 24 times a second, distinguishing between 10 different states of each neuron.

*snip*
Because of the form factor of hands and keyboard, it looks like a manual input device. But looking at the data throughput, the evidence suggests that it’s actually a brain interface, meant to keep the computer up to date with whatever the user is thinking at that exact moment and responding appropriately. For all the futurism seen in this film, this is perhaps the most futuristic, and perhaps the most surprising.

My mind = blown.

Hehe... reminds me of my favorite tabletop rp character that I played under the Amber Diceless system. 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He had computer sunglasses that he interacted with through implants in his fingertips, among a bunch of other gadgets.  He typed by tapping his fingers on any hard surface, and he had plates in the pockets of his fancy trenchcoat for doing so.  I described him as always with his hands in his pockets, rapidly tapping away, but we spent most of the game in lower technology settings, so nobody ever had any idea what he was doing.  The main focus of his character was his relationship with an AI companion that lived in his sunglasses.  He thought it was his sister that he had resurrected into the cyber realm with a combination of trump magic and techno-wizardry.  The game didn't last long enough to arrive at any of the major plot revelations the GM had planned, but years later he told me that my character was supposed to learn that the AI companion was completely bogus.  It was actually a sort of multiple personality, and the character was himself responsible for everything she did.  He was just so godly talented that he could ask her to perform complex tasks, like filter through shitloads of data or hack into high security systems, and then do those things himself without realizing it while focusing on other things.  He was always tapping his fingers.

Your GM is scary. O_O

[SalmonGod]

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting it at all.  I really wish we could have played out that game.  I enjoyed the hell out of that character.  Most unassuming out of the whole cast, but had by far the most tricks up his sleeve.  In the bidding phase of character creation, I successfully won first place in both endurance and warfare (out of like a dozen players), then spent the rest of my points on items and trump magic... then figured out how to digitize trumps.  So much fun   I hope to play Amber again someday.  Too bad the game is hardly known.

[Descan]

I still want to play a table-top as a magician/scientist/lich-wannabe who's looking to take over the world so that he can get more books.

[BlackFlyme]

I still want to play a table-top as a magician/scientist/lich-wannabe who's looking to take over the world so that he can get more books.

So like DF Adventure mode, but with dice? :V

My friends ran an evil campaign in Pathfinder once. So much eye-gouging.

[Descan]

Well, that, and (for magic settings) jump-starting a space-age (WITH MAGIC) civilization.